The City of Regina, by comparison, climbed nine spots over last year to tie for third with Maple Ridge, B.C., in the Frontier Centre for Public Policy’s annual Local Government Performance Index released Monday.
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Dictating Their Own Fate
Figures on aboriginal population from the 2011 census are not yet available, but the 2006 census showed nearly 1.2 million Canadians — about 4 per cent of the population — claim to be aboriginal. Of these, fewer than a quarter (under 400,000) live on reserves.
Warming Lies: More Ratty Data
The National Climatic Data Center wrongly declared July 2012 as America‘s hottest July ever — and hasn‘t corrected itself.
The End of Detention: The business of student discipline has moved a long way from the strap
Disciplinary business has changed dramatically at the St. John’s, N.L., independent K-12 school since September, when Greg O’Leary became principal and joined with other teachers in a new “relational culture” at the school that feeds into a new curricular approach – one that aims to make students more accountable for their actions and helps them think about how their behaviour affects themselves and others.
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Promote Equity by Providing a Quality Education
Earlier this year, a group called Equity Matters asked the province to establish an education equity secretariat. They want this office to oversee equity officers working in Manitoba schools. Equity Matters wants to ensure that all Manitoba students are reflected in...
Why Frances Widdowson Matters
Frances Widdowson probably isn't someone most Canadians recognize. I'm here to tell you why they should. In terms of Canada's intellectual culture, Frances Widdowson matters because she is a classic and prolific academic. In a time when demagoguery easily flourishes,...
Bus Rapid Transit Seen as Option Until LRT Lines Are Citywide: Trains more expensive, seen as most desirable choice for commuters
I took the bus or drove to work for 20 years before moving to a neighbourhood served by LRT, and there’s no comparison. LRT is vastly superior.
School Survey Highlights Lack of Teachers in North
In March, the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS) partnered with the Winnipeg –based Frontier Centre for Public Policy (FCPP) to grade Manitoba and Saskatchewan high schools in several areas, ranging from student attendance to teacher certification.
O Conservatives
No longer is Canada’s Conservative Party hamstrung by a minority government. On Monday, 61 percent of registered voters trekked to the polls to hand Prime Minister Stephen Harper his first clear majority in the House of Commons.
The Environmentalists Need to Stop Crying Wolf
A study released this week concludes that government “green-job” programs aren’t the yellow-brick road to happiness in Europe.
The Great Health Care Squeeze
Last year’s Frontier Centre for Public Policy’s annual Euro-Canada Health Consumer Index reported that Canada had improved its score in four of five measured categories, including patient rights, wait times, outcomes and range and reach of services, though we still have “a long way to go to catch up to Europe’s top performers,” not least because we run one of the most expensive systems in the world.
Nenshi Wants Taxi Study Launched: Mayor reacts to complaints
Less than two years after a wide-ranging review of Calgary’s taxi bylaw, Mayor Naheed Nenshi wants city council to launch a major study on how to reshape the city’s cab and limousine industry.
From Greenpeace to Business, He is Making Waves
A co-founder and former member of Greenpeace, Moore is now the co-founder and chair of Greenspirit Strategies Ltd., a firm in B.C. focused on helping companies develop communication around sustainability. Moore says only now is the world starting to understand what being sustainable means.
Shift Health-Care Attitudes
Surveys show health care as the major concern of Canadians, but as yet we hear no remedial steps offered by Stephen Harper or Michael Ignatieff.
The High Cost of Calgary’s Low-Cost Transit
Those figures conveniently ignore some pretty substantial light rail costs. For one thing, they count only capital costs from the first nine years of C-Train development, when the city spent $18 million per kilometer to build the initial phases. Those were the cheapest phases, of course, because they focused on the highest density routes, heavily centred around downtown—“the low hanging fruit.”